10-18-2020, 06:07 PM
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It's what Dylan called a 'scrapegoat'
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Dylan the Prophesizer : Word Routes : Vocabulary.com
https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/...e-prophesizer/
Elsewhere his word choice has been even more head-scratching. In "Ballad in Plain D," from the 1964 album Another Side of Bob Dylan, he sings: The constant scrapegoat, she was easily undone By the jealousy of others around her.* In the official published lyrics, the line is "corrected" to scapegoat, but he clearly sings scrapegoat.
'Scapegoat' - the meaning and origin of this word
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/scapegoat.html
'Scrapegoat' is now pretty well-established and can be found in many printed sources. Bob Dylan, endlessly poetically inventive but not overly concerned with grammatical propriety, used it in Ballad in Plain D, 1964: Of the two sisters, I loved the young With sensitive instincts, she was the creative one The constant scrapegoat, she was easily ...
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BLM: we shan't be faulted for not raking the forests.
* AKA projection
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